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STAR WARS WRITING RESOURCES

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WOOKIEEPEDIA. The source of anything and everything you want to know related to Star Wars. Good for fact-checking, character history, or simply killing time. There is also, of course, the official Star Wars Databank! STAR WARS GALAXY MAP. A fantastic project that maps the Star Wars galaxy as we know it. Consider donating ( if you can! ) to help keep the site up and running! Also check out W.R. van Hage’s map and the Star Wars Atlas Online Companion. TIMELINE. While hosted on Wookieepedia, this is nevertheless deserving of its own bullet point. This page provides an approximate timeline with dates of all canon material. You can also filter items, so that it displays only TV episodes, for example, or only books, or only movies! Find the Legends timeline here. STAR WARS SLANG AND PHRASES. A collection I’ve been keeping of phases, slang, idioms, insults, and more from the Star Wars universe. This also contains a glossary of frequently used terms, such as “refresher” in place of “restroom”. Please feel free to use/share! 

STAR WARS NAME GENERATOR. This is a fun one AND a life saver. You can generate up to 100 Star Wars-sounding names ( first and last! ) with a click. 

OTHER GENERATORS: 

Spaceship names as well as spaceship type/models

Earth-like alien planets for any alien planet you don’t have info on

Random landscapes, see above

Technobabble generator for when you need a reason for a red alert

Alien plant/herb/flower name generator. Also: mineral/metal/gemstone names, material names, medication names, and descriptions of alien substances

Scifi tool names for gadgets and gizmos

OTHER WEBSITES:

Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, Dirk Loechel’s Sci-fi Spaceship Size Comparisons, and other Star Wars Deckplans

Star Wars Post 

Star Wars News Net

TheForce.net

[motherofclones]

Here you go writers:D

[texasdreamer01]

The Complete Wermo’s Guide - A fan guide to some of the languages in Star Wars. Articles and accessory pages feature links to source material and further reading.

Erik Stormtrooper’s Imperial Gallery - A fansite the features fonts for Star Wars languages, as well as information on Star Wars toys.

Mando’a Database - The official website for Mando’a, by author Karen Traviss. Features a dictionary, phrase list, and forum.

Star Wars Fan Database - This link goes specifically to the PDF of all original scripts for Episodes I-VI. Includes deleted scenes. Website contains themed games, and encyclopedia, drawing references, and IRL news relating to Star Wars.

Star Wars Helmets - Link goes directly to the recommended sites page, but the site features information about helmets found in Star Wars as well as related information.

[meandmyechoes]

Hyperspace Travel Time Calculator

Coruscant Translator - translate from Basic

Materials Glossary - fabrics, plastic metal etc.

Star Wars Food

Species Anatomy - speculation diagrams & meta for various aliens

Canon Characters Age Chart by @stairset

[jonathananubian]

Do note that the Mando’a Dictionary has one major Misspelling in it and has been Abandoned. So no fixes will be coming int eh future.

“Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad- I know your name as my child.” Is the Adoption vow and should actually be “Ni kar’tayl gai sa’ad.”

Kyr indicates Death, while Kar indicates the Heart. Kar’tayl means to ‘know/hold in the heart.’

[david-talks-sw]

Anakin, Faust, and going to Hades...

"[Anakin] fell in love with Padmé then became possessive of her. He got jealous and all those things. Then when he found out that she was going to die, he would do anything to stop that from happening even to the point of making a pact with the Devil."

"[He thinks:] 'I want the power to save somebody from death. I want to be able to stop them from going to the river Styx, and I need to go to a god for that, but the gods won’t do it...

... so I’m going to go down to Hades and get the Dark Lord to allow me to have this power that will allow me to save the very person I want to hang on to.'"

"In mythology if you go to Hades to get [your loved one] back, you're not doing it for them, you're doing it for yourself. You're doing it because you don't want to give them up. You're afraid to be without them."

"You talk to the devil, and the devil says ‘this is what you do’ and basically you sell your soul to the devil."

"He’s traded his soul for power. It’s Faust."

"The more power he wants, and the more power he gets...

... the more he loses."

"In the end you have all this power but you have nobody to share it with, except some wizened old man who’s even more evil than you are."

"If you’re going to sell your soul to save somebody you love, that’s as we say in the film, unnatural. You have to accept the natural course of life. Death is obviously the biggest of them all. Not only death for yourself but death for the things you care about."

Sources:

Vanity Fair, 2005

Celebration V, Main Event, 2010

The Star Wars Archives: 1977-1983, 2018

Virtual Speaker Interview “Mellody Hobson”, 2021

[chronologyxxx]

you know, it seems like dave filoni and other disney sw creators think that vader was constantly in his mustafar-mode and never reflected on his actions or fate for 20+ years; i even found a clip in which filoni says that the key to vader is that he can't be given any character since he doesn't care, doesn't see you and wants to destroy everything, because he doesn't want to admit that he made a bad choice; that maul is in a state of struggle to let go of his anger and hate, while vader is completely consumed by them — this doesn't make any sense with how george lucas characterized anakin/vader in both of his trilogies

like, for these people he's just an idiot who can't understand that his choices were bad and just mindlessly destroys everything that reminds him of his anakin persona like an unstable, hot-tempered child

damn. the kylorenification of darth vader should be studied.

[lavandaverde]

Padmé + The God Abandons Antony

[chronologyxxx]

"obi-wan's love for anakin, and his love for anakin's children, allowed luke skywalker to become a beacon of hope and bring anakin back to the light side," as if luke skywalker didn't do it against obi-wan's wishes, like, obi-wan explicitly didn't want luke to do any of that

[chronologyxxx]

i don't understand obi-wan fans' obsession with taking other characters' positive traits and achievements to give them to obi-wan. i see this all the time: it wasn't padme who believed in the best in anakin and loved him unconditionally, it was actually obi-wan, and it wasn't shmi who raised anakin to be kind and compassionate, it was actually obi-wan, and it wasn't luke who brought his father back from the dark side by putting his life on the line, that too is obi-wan's doing. many of anakin's positive traits and actions are also taken away from him and given to obi-wan: it's not that anakin genuinely wanted to be a good jedi and tried to help people when he could, it's just that obi-wan is so pure and perfect that he had a positive influence even on this rotten, corrupted kid — honestly, anakin's beliefs and traumas from the movies are so often attributed to obi-wan in other people's supplemental material that i almost feel like people want to make obi-wan a better version of anakin who didn't fall despite experiencing the same horrors, in order to mold the story into some weird narrative about the superiority of perfect victims, which breaks the original story and sends a terrible message

in relation to this, there's one popular take i simply can't agree with: "only padme and luke could have brought anakin back from the dark side; obi-wan, leia, ahsoka, and other characters couldn't have done it". g-lucas said leia could have brought anakin back to the light side, but i also believe obi-wan and other characters could have done it. obi-wan didn't do this because he didn't really understand anakin and didn't believe there was any good left in him, ahsoka didn't do this because she's a retcon, leia didn't do this because being vader's daughter is also a retcon. the correct thing to say is "only padme and luke tried to bring anakin back from the dark side, and the narrative rewarded them for it"

i think the belief that only certain people could help redeem vader diminishes the significance of his redemption and luke's decision to save him. luke wins not because he is vader's special boy, but because he believed in his father and the goodness left in him, despite the fact that other people (obi-wan and yoda) advised him to give up on him. anakin redeems himself because luke shows him unconditional love, is willing to die for him and asks him for help

[o0kawaii0o]

pov: you try to threaten his wife and daughter

[onceuponastarryeye]

anidala + william shakespeare's star wars: the clone army attacketh by ian doescher

[heidi891]

My Jane Austen Fanfiction Pet Peeves

Mrs Bennet's problem isn't her middle class background. In the very same novel we have ridiculous Lady Catherine and perfectly kind and polite Gardiners who are literally in trade. Mrs Bennet could be a daughter of a wealthy landed gentleman and still be terribly stupid.

Darcy was a snob, not a rake.

No one calls Miss Bingley "Caro" in the novel.

Henry Crawford is not handsome.

The Prices have two servants (Rebecca and Sally).

Mr Price is a lieutenant of the marines, not the navy.

He's not physically abusive.

It was the Admiralty that decided who got promoted in the navy.

William Price does have a friend, who is a surgeon; but he's often replaced by a captain, because it's more prestigious, I guess.

Speaking of William, when someone writes about "William Darcy", I always think at first it's an Elizabeth Bennet/William Price fic.

While I believe Fanny Price can get over Edmund, she needs time and a reason. She won't suddenly forget him when someone else is nice to her.

A "compromise."

I just wish we had more stories where the ultimate happiness doesn't mean marrying up; more stories about the heroine herself, about equal partnerships, about the couple building their home together instead of the hero giving it to the heroine; more stories that aren't more regressive than the novels written 200 years ago.

[gay-mormon-wizard]

maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.

[imliterallyinsanern]

YOU’RE SO SMART OMG YOU’RE A GENIUS

[macabre-muses]

this^^^^ for me is THE most important thing to remember about padmé's mindset on mustafar. like a good 80% of arguments about anidala and how well they worked as a couple could be solved is people just took this into consideration. a good amount of arguments about padmé also. like think what you will about this comment (external moral judgment can't impact padmé's feelings anyway i fear) but it's sooo important to remember it imo. she HAS seen him at his worst already but what matteres is that all through that she knew him. but now after that exclusive bond of understanding they created between eachother was (or seemed) severed because of anakin's change of priorities so she can't know him anymore and it's impossible to underestimate how important it was for padmé thats he and anakin could REALLY know and see each other.

[rileytheperson]

One of the points where the "Romeo and Juliet is a satire on young love" take kind of falls apart is the fact that, had Romeo and Juliet not fallen in love, they'd probably be worse off. Romeo would've still been banished and Juliet would've been married off to a man who is likely much older than her and talks to her as if he owns her. At least, with each other, they were happy for the few days before their deaths.

[thehungreecat]

killed them all 🥺

sketch

[elrondsscribe]

Thoughts on Shmi Skywalker as a stoic enslaved mother

I got tired of chewing on this one and decided to just post it.

Enslaved people, real and fictional, make the best choices they can with what little agency their worlds afford them. Sometimes people for whom slavery is merely an interesting historical tidbit or a handy narrative device will either praise or condemn the choices that enslaved people make. But they usually don't bother to remember that slavery is in fact a huge mitigating factor in that decision-making. A choice made under duress doesn't have the same ethical dimensions as a choice made freely, and it doesn't get more under duress than living in slavery.

So, when one of those people for whom slavery is just a handy narrative device and not an inherited communal trauma (the axe forgets, the tree remembers) creates fiction, he just might create a fictional enslaved parent like Shmi Skywalker.

When I call Shmi Skywalker stoic, I'm not really talking about her demeanor (which is my nice way of saying I don't really care about Pernilla August's acting). I'm talking about the fact that her entire role in The Phantom Menace is to seamlessly hand Anakin over to the Jedi when the plot requires her to. She makes no spectacle of any anger or grief she feels, and makes no material protest over either her fate or her son's (the film gives us no reason to believe that Anakin has any siblings). The wisdom she has to offer is very conveniently general -- 'people need to help each other more' and 'change is inevitable.' Once she tells her son to walk away from her without looking back, she recedes obediently from the narrative until ten years later in Attack of the Clones, when it's time for her to suffer horrifically and die in the arms of her son.

In case it wasn't obvious, this is absolutely a white man's vision of a virtuous enslaved mother. This is absolutely the kind of morality that a white creator would celebrate: a morality that totally negates any self-interest on the part of the enslaved mother, and whose love for her son does not inconvenience the people who want to take him from her. No wonder her reception by the Star Wars fandom is so often to be forgotten entirely, and when she is remembered, for her 'letting Anakin go' to be held up as some kind of standard of virtue that Anakin then selfishly fails to meet, thereby proving his lack of morality.

Apparently we're not supposed to see slavery as a massive part of what makes the Republic corrupt. We're definitely not supposed to question why one of the most powerful institutions of the Republic -- its fully armed enforcement mechanism, no less! -- can't muster up the money to buy the freedom of a single enslaved woman, or even the decency to let her and her son stay in contact. We're not supposed to find major fault with the unjust systems failing Shmi and backing her into a corner. No, it's all about Shmi showing she's individually good and virtuous by not getting in the way of the Jedi having their precious Chosen One.

All I'm saying is, black authors don't usually write slavery like that.

[akajustmerry]

friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.

[bethanydelleman]

To get Caroline Bingley's character right, you have to understand that she is a foil for both the Bennet sisters and Mr. Darcy.

She is the more rational choice for Darcy vs. the Bennets. She has education, manners, a fortune, and clearly, relatives that he likes. So many fan fiction authors make her vulgar and/or unfashionable, but she isn't! That is why Darcy enjoys hanging out with her in the beginning; he would not have her at his house if she was embarrassing. Even when angry with Elizabeth, Caroline does not dare go further in attacking Elizabeth at Pemberley. She has self control. She understands boundaries, which Jane and Elizabeth mostly do, but the rest of the Bennet family struggles with. This is why she's a foil for them.

As for Darcy, at the beginning, Caroline is a nearly perfect mirror of his opinions and snobby attitude. She is doing this on purpose as a way of flirting, but it's probably pretty close to her real personality anyway. She's right that Darcy looks down on Elizabeth's uncle being a lower class lawyer. She's right that he finds the Bennet family intolerable to marry into. However, as Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth and then reforms, Caroline's mirror distorts. That shows his growth in the novel. She, like Elizabeth, fails to update her priors, though to be fair to Caroline, she didn't build her knowledge of Mr. Darcy on first impressions. It's harder to change her mind because she did once know him very well.

Side note: this is also why people woobyfying Darcy hurts Caroline as a rational character. They start in a very similar place and love mean girl gossiping together, then he changes. When Darcy's flaws are erased, it makes Caroline look super irrational and much crueller.

Lastly, Caroline is above all else, pragmatic and strategic. She does not hold grudges once it becomes more advantageous to drop them. She would never, ever, now that she is connected by marriage to the Bennets, mock them in public. Because that reflects on her! Caroline would be in London talking up that the Bennets are a very old gentry family with an ancient estate or something. She's going to be giving them a PR makeover to all her fancy friends because they are HERS now, for better or for worse and whether she likes any of them or not. Yes, in private she might be mean, as she is in the novel, but again, she's not vulgar and she has nothing to gain in public. She has manners, she has self-control; being a mean girl doesn't override that.

[bethanydelleman]

#gotta point out that while I absolutely love the scene where Darcy shuts Caroline down#(every time I watch the 1995 show zrayak yells ‘GET REKT CAROLINE’ at the tv it is SO funny)#he’s specifically shutting down something that they used to do together#she reminds him that he said ‘I’d as soon call her mother a wit’ because HEY REMEMBER HOW WE USED TO DO THAT?#REMEMBER HOW FUN IT WAS? THAT THING WE USED TO DO ALL THE TIME?#like imagine if your main bonding activity with your bestie was getting drunk and watching bad movies and making fun of them#and then one day your bestie starts dating a screenwriter and NOW every time you bring up bad movies you get shut down#'oh no we shouldn't mock other peoples' hard work! that would be mean! :('#my brother in christ we watched the room (2003) & you said it was the dumbest thing you'd ever seen in your life what are you TALKING about#jane austen

Exactly! (tags from @bemusedlybespectacled)

Darcy is rejecting the self that he used to be as much as he's shutting down Caroline.

[illycanary]

Love the idea that Caroline becomes the Bennets’ fiercest defender and PR manager—not because she’s had some miraculous change of personality and stopped being the mean girl, but because those monkeys are her circus now, dammit, and like hell is she going to let them drag her down. If anything, she’s going to become more manipulative and scheming than ever, but it’s for the benefit of these idiots.

[bethanydelleman]

Exactly! It doesn't take any change of character, she defends her own and marriage is forever. The Bennets are now her own! And she will defend Jane too for the same reason (so many people are like, "Poor Jane has to live with Caroline." Jane will be fine.)

I wrote a sequel to Pride & Prejudice once and Caroline was encouraging Kitty during her first season in London. People said I was writing her way too nice for canon, but Kitty is one of hers now! A good marriage for Kitty is a good connection for Caroline. It's self motivated and exactly in character.

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

Vader’s attempts to capture Luke in the comics are also so, SO good because Vader was just positively OBSESSIVE about it. Like Palpatine himself said, Vader stole shittons of Imperial money and murdered a whole bunch of people, creating an EMPIRE within the EMPIRE, just so that he could get the resources to capture Luke. He wasted thousands of hours and Imperial lives on literal Family Drama missions. He murdered a random nobody who was impersonating Luke to get smuggling jobs out of sheer disappointment, he murdered a whole SLEW of high-ranking officers just because they inadvertently threatened Luke, and he threatened a high-ranking admiral with death because she was about to fire on the Falcon (and thus Luke). He straight-up MURDERED Aphra in the one way she said she didn’t want to die (throwing her out of the airlock) because she knew too much about Luke. And in ESB, he flew his ENTIRE SHIP into an asteroid field because he thought Luke was on the falcon. Obsessive father, thy name is Vader

where’s that post that was like “the imperial march is just the tune vader thinks the word ‘son’ over in obsessively” because it was very funny and apt. also, yes, all of this rules, also especially the part where vader - notably a dude who got torched by lava - surfboards on a river of lava to approach luke’s divine presence. it’s the best fucking thing. you know in the gillen comics, when he first learns luke’s name, and he has this rosy-glittering daydream about reaching out to luke and luke’s reaching back? like our man, evil sith lord extraordinaire, had an extended daydream about approaching holding hands with luke? not even actually holding hands, just, like, getting a little close? holy shit. impeccable

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

I don’t know if I’ve already said this before or not, but Vader is SO horrifyingly yet endearingly hypocritical. This man murdered literal children and probably has personally slaughtered like THOUSANDS of OTHER people’s children without remorse, but GOD FORBID if any of them even THINK about touching HIS son!!! Like how dare they!!! Luke is just a pure baby who can do no wrong, and if anybody hurts him, Vader will 100% kill them!!! It’s SO good

i'm a little convinced the thing that breaks vader between ESB and ROTJ, that breaks his fervent desire for son, is the fact that he'd never actually imagined luke would rather die than follow him. because anakin himself had been a bottomless pit of desire for that same kind of connection, that in a lot of ways he'd desperately wanted obi-wan to be a father to him when obi-wan was interested, at most, in being a brother, that this - the craving for parental affection - was the thing that drove him to palpatine and into the dark in the first place. so much of vader's plan relied on luke being as desperate for that affection as anakin had been, and in some ways, luke is, but luke is not willing to capitulate himself to get that affection. he's not willing to work for in. in ROTJ, he asks, and he offers his own love, but he won't submit to be anything less than who he has made of luke skywalker.

it's the first time vader's ever been on the other side of that, as the father. and luke was willing to die to get away from him, in that moment, and vader has to face that he has fallen so far there wasn't a hope to defeat palpatine at all, and also just the brutal fear that luke can die and there's nothing luke would let vader do to stop it. vader has to face his fear of loss as a parent, and then that, of course, leads to the stray thought that if every parent of every child he's ever carelessly slaughtered felt like he did in that moment on bespin - well. the vader you see in ROTJ is a lot different for a reason, and, in my reading of it, it's because he had to stare that hypocrisy in the face between ESB and ROTJ. for the first time in over two decades he has to face, in a VERY small part, what he is and what justifications he made that got him to the point where his son would die before joining him, and everything that entails.